Via Think Progress:
An ad the National Rifle Association is using as a recruiting tool on its Facebook page stops just short of openly declaring war on the mainstream media and anti-Trump progressives.
In the one-minute spot, conservative media personality and NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch says progressives “bully and terrorize the law abiding,” adding that “the only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight the violence of lies with the clenched first of truth.”
As the ad was being widely denounced on Wednesday night, Loesch posted a Periscope video doubling down on the overheated rhetoric she uses in the video, smearing liberals as “the dullest crayons in the box.”
This NRA ad is an open call to violence to protect white supremacy. If I made a video like this, I'd be in jail. pic.twitter.com/LD65yMUMVn
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 29, 2017
This new NRA ad is barely a whisper shy of a call for full civil war. https://t.co/N33s2KyvVz
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) June 28, 2017
The NRA just released an ad that is part authoritarian, part incitement to violence, part call for a civil war. This cannot be our politics. pic.twitter.com/1mzZf8fNku
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 29, 2017
I say this without an ounce of exaggeration: the NRA released an ad calling for the formation of fascist militias
— THE ABSOLUTE BOY ? (@Mike_hugs) June 28, 2017
One of many such responses to my tweet linking to NRA ad that nearly calls for civil war. pic.twitter.com/PkEpBOCm4l
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) June 29, 2017